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Children and Social Media

Children should receive strong legal protection from social-media systems designed to maximize compulsive attention and psychological dependence.

Position

Parents remain the primary guardians of children, while the state may regulate commercial systems that deliberately exploit children's developmental vulnerability.

Policy

  • Provide substantially stronger privacy and discoverability defaults for minors.
  • Restrict manipulative engagement systems aimed at maximizing compulsive use by children.
  • Severely restrict targeted behavioural advertising to children.
  • Require effective parental controls.
  • Do not require pupils to maintain commercial social-media accounts for ordinary schooling.
  • Permit limits on night-time notification and engagement mechanisms aimed at minors.
  • Design age assurance to minimize identity-data collection.
  • Use a general framework of highly restricted access under 13, strong parental and minor protections at 13–15, broader but still protected access at 16–17, and ordinary adult rules at 18.

Implementation note

Implementation note

The manifesto expressly states that children should be protected from industries whose profit models depend on maximizing psychological dependence. The exact age-verification mechanism remains an implementation question.

Manifesto basis

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    Family

    The family formed around marriage is the fundamental social institution, and public policy should make marriage and child-rearing materially realistic.

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    Pornography

    Restore Europe supports the complete legal prohibition of pornography.

  • Manifesto CoreEducation, Culture and Public Life

    Purpose of Education

    Education should transmit civilization before attempting to transform it, with serious study of Christianity, history, classical civilization, the sciences and the arts.

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    Technology: General Doctrine

    Technological development is not synonymous with human progress, and should be judged by its effects on autonomy, family, community and work.

  • DerivedTechnology, AI and Human-Scale Life

    Digital Identification

    Digital identification may exist as an optional convenience, but ordinary civic participation must not require compulsory digital-only identity.

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